• Question: How much chocolate or sugary things can you eat until you become diabetic (just curious, not because of any other reasons)?

    Asked by isaacnewton123 to Amar, Ana, Andrea, Leah, Matt on 11 Mar 2014.
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      Anastasia Wass answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      this varies as every person is slightly different.
      When you eat sugar your body releases Insulin. This causes all the sugar to be absorbed by your cells and removed from your blood. If it stayed in your blood this would affect the osmolarity (how watery it is).
      Diabetes happens when you eat so much sugar and insulin is released so often that your cells start ignoring it. This means the sugar isn’t taken out of your blood.
      As far as I know there’s no set point for when cells start ignoring the insulin it’s just when you eat alot of sugar over a long period of time!

    • Photo: Andrea Hanvey

      Andrea Hanvey answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      If you have a genetic predisposition for diabetes then it would take less than some one who hasn’t. everyone is different so it depends when your pancreas has had enough!

    • Photo: Amar Joshi

      Amar Joshi answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Like the other answers I don’t think there is a limit. Your genes can make you more likely to get diabetes, but your whole lifestyle is important, not just what you eat but what you do.

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